78 PAST AND PRESENT OF

John McLean, Ex.-M. P., and Mr. Alex- ander Robertson. Two Kings county men have held the position of Lieutenant Gov- ernor of the province, namely, Honourable Senator McDonald and Dr. Peter A. Mc- Intyre, Ex-M. P., of Souris. In Federal poli-

tics the county has been represented by Hon- ourable Daniel Davies, Augustine C. Mc- Donald, James E. Robertson, M. D., Dr. P. A. McIntyre, Dr. Muttart, John McLean and James J. Hughes. Such men as these would do honor to any country.

PRINCE COUNTY.

BY JOHN MOLLISON.

Prince county is the westernmost of the three into which the province of Prince Edward Island is divided. It contains the townships I to 19 and 25 to 28 of the 67 which comprise the whole. Owing to the somewhat crescent shape of this “Gem of the Gulf”—a name it sometimes gets—and the northwestern extremity being the farther north, it has a greater range of latitude than either of the others. The southeastern comer to the west of the entrance of Crapaud Har- bour lies in about 46 degrees, IO minutes north latitude, and the shore at North Cape in about 47 degrees, 4 minutes. It is, on the whole, more deeply indented with bays than the others; at two parts, one between Percival river on the south, and a branch of Foxley river on the north (across Lot 10), and the other a short distance west of Summerside, between a small creek running into Richmond Bay on the north and an extension of Wilmot river on the south, be- ing from tide water to tide water, but little more than a mile in width.

Prince county, too, is perhaps the most level of the three. Nowhere does it rise more than 200 feet above the level of the sea. The highest point in crossing the watershed between Bedeque and Richmond bays is about 150 feet, and the high ground at Mis-

couche may be as much. as thirty or forty feet higher. The village of Tignish rests on ground somewhat high, but it is not likely higher than 200 feet.

One of the prominent physical features of this county—although Queens also has the same remarkable characteristic, and in- deed Kings slightly as well—is the sandhills, commonly called sand’ills in the vernacular. These are ridges of more or less high sand banks rising out of the sea and extending on the northern shore—for Prince county— from the western side of the entrance to Richmond Bay to Kildare, a distance of over twenty miles. These ridges of sand are not continuous, however, but have a num- ber of gaps through which fishing crafts can reach the open gulf. Between them

and the farm-land, too, is a strip of water of an average width of about a mile, and deep enough for flat fishing boats to sail in. These sand

dunes have a peculiar kind of wire grass growing on them, which is cut during the autumn and fed to cattle during the winter season. The farmers cut and stack it and when the “Narrows”—the name the narrow strip of water between the sand ridges and the mainland is colloquially known by—is frozen the hay is hauled to the barns. This